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A tiny Transmission.app hack

(A post every 10 months. I hope that does not annoy you :) It will not take long to read, anyway. ) Transmission is a great BitTorrent client. It is full of features (look at the site!), including bandwidth control, and runs on every platform (Linux and Mac :P). You can choose global upload and [...]

By now I think everybody has heard of the unsuccessful [terrorist?] attack to Northwestern Flight 253, where Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab tried to mix bomb components about one hour before the plane landed. We’re so used to the restrictions applied to passengers of flights, that we almost think of them as routine, while we should [...]

Intel’s Activex

So, who am I supposed to trust? (it turns out that Husdawg LLC is a perfectly “legal” ActiveX provider, but Intel does not mention them anywhere — just hoping people will click through?)

Snow Leopard Trash, again

At first I did not notice, but emptying the trash took ages, even “not securely”. Well, being the geek I am I did a quick dtruss on the Locum process, which spit out a huge list of write_nocancel syscalls. So, it seems it was actually writing stuff over the files I asked him to delete, [...]

Leggo e volentieri riporto il post sul blog di paolo sull’ Agile Day 2009, conferenza unica nel suo genere, organizzata senza budget faraonici ma ricca di contenuti. Se fate sviluppo software (e non solo), fateci un salto: Venerdì 20 Novembre 2009, a Bologna.




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